Sharkey’s Machine and The Piano both have scene where someones fingers are deliberately mutilated as a form of torture. I had to leave the theater both times. Since I had company both times, it was awkward. I feel like “finger mutilation” should get its own line in the ratings system, just like “sci fi violence” or “language” so I would know to stay the hell away.
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Made possible via a body double who had lost both forearms in an industrial accident. Brutal but effective use of practical effects.
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age 11, a friend had a colour TV and VHS player. We watched Terminator and I had nightmares that the de-skinned terminator was crawling across the roof next to my bedroom
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I love how this thread can be such an age signifier.
The one that stands out above all else for me is the dog kennel scene from The Thing. Couldn’t watch the rest of the film for years after that.
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Oh, John Carpenter’s the Thing totally ‘fucked me up,’ but I was a teen when I first saw that as well. It’s still one of my fav horror movies to this day, because even for 1982 it was so very well done.
The audience only sees ‘the Thing’ for about 15 total minutes screen time; the rest is all atmospheric tension and psychological horror.
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I’d blocked that one out! “Death’s Other Dominion” was the Space:1999 episode that no amount of mind bleach could remove from my brain. Seeing that doctor still strapped into his chair was extremely disturbing.
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Yes. I liked the idea of “Bound” but started losing interest when they first cut fingers. I walked out when it happened a second time.
Movies should have more sex, and less finger cutting.
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I had the kind of parents who put their hands over my eyes for the “scary parts” of stuff like Indiana Jones, and nobody in my immediate family is really big on horror in general, so I missed a lot of the more traumatizing “kid-friendly” stuff (I’ve still never even seen Goonies).
Of course, the climax of The Little Mermaid with the giant Ursula the Sea Witch scared the shit out of me when I first saw it at the theater, so maybe that’s for the best, hehe.
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You should rectify that; it’s a fun fluffy little movie where the pirate’s name is a running dick joke…
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That was the worst! But this scene really freaked me out. Same year.
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“The Little Mermaid” was sad long before Disney got to it. I honestly don’t remember the story much, but I basically heard the story simultaneously with seeing her statue in Copenhagen harbor.
For Hans Christian Anderson try reading your kids “The Little Matchstick Girl” as a 2020 appropriate Christmas story.
Kudos to everyone who mentioned original fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen; I read them all from a very young age, and that was probably what initially “fucked me up as a kid.”
Those original stories were not the same sugary sweet BS that Disney turned them into for profit; they were warnings which often had unhappy endings.
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Oh yeah, McCoy’s old flame Nancy…well, what pretended to be her.
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I was reassured by her loyal kitty protector, though.
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Yeah, i absolutely love The Thing now of course, it is a masterpiece of tension and I’ve always liked films that take place more or less in a single location. It’s funny to me that these terror-inducing films when seen at a more impressionable age are now like warm comfort blankets you can return to.
Another one i remember is A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - watched at a friend’s house during the day but I barely slept for at least a month afterward. Wayyy too young to be watching crap like that.
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General was pure awesome; he went through hell just to get to the little girl, let alone fighting off the troll when the time came.
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This pretty much looks like my “playlist” back in the day. Maybe I was influenced by my Grandmother that took me to see Alien at the theater when i was 8.
Lots of good stuff here!
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I think that was the first real gore/slasher horror movie I ever saw. I think it didn’t cause lasting damage because I had my eyes closed for so much of it.
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This was a pretty trashy horror movie at the time, but what a cast!
Still, my “fucked me up” moment was when Oliver Reed loses it and tries to drown his kid.
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